Dish-washing machine



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C. BURDICK .8v C. R. BROWN.

` DISH WASHING MAGHIHH.

No. 367,361. Patented Aug. 2, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. 'A

CHARLES BURDICK 'AND CHARLES BROWN, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

DISH-WASHING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No, 367,361,7dated August 2, 1887.

Application file-d October l, 1856. Serial No. 215,043. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom, t 11i/ay concern: l

Be it known that we, CHARLES BURDIOK and CHARLES R.-BROWN, both of Cleveland,

in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio,

y working parts and the dishes arranged in the basket. Fig. 2 is a detached perspective view of the basket, and Fig. 3 is a detached per'- spective view of the dasher and the mechanis for operating it.

A represents a round or cylindrical vessel having a concave bottom, in the center of which is provided an outlet or discharge opening having a suitable cock or gate for closing said opening, and said vessel is supported upon a suitable frame and legs, also provided with a' suitable lid or cover. Over the aforesaid discharge-opening is fixed a small bridge, B, fhaving a step, b, in which stands a short vertical shaft, C, whose upper end is jou'r naled in a cross-bar, D, supported crosswise near the bottom of the vessel in the sides thereof. On the said vertical shaft C is placed a bevel-pinion, E, and also upon said shaft is xed a rotary dasher, F, consisting of a bar having upon each side of its center of motion one or more upwardly-slanting at ingers ff. The length of the said dasher is about equal to two-thirds the diameter of the vessel A, thus leaving a spacesurrounding its circle -of rotation for the occupancy of dishes, as seen in Fig. 1. p

G is a counter-shaft, having its inner bearing in the aforesaid crossbar D, above the bearing of the -vertical shaft, its outer end passing out through the side wall of the vessel A, andprovided wit-ha suitable bearing and stuftingbox. To the outer end of said countershaft is applied a crank, K, for giving motion to the said shafts and thence to the dasher.

`admit them to set within it.

The basket consists of hoops H H of a diameter sufficiently less than the vessel A to Said hoops are united by cross-wires k k, and thus form a suitable rim for sustaining vthe inner framework. The lower hook is provided with break-openings o o to straddle the shafts and let the said hoop rest on the bottom of the vessel. Smaller hoops, I I, united by crosswires z' i, arefixed equidistant within the circle of the outer hoops, H H, and are supported ou the level of the upper hoop, H, by diagonal rods h h, and at sui-table intervals between the upper hoop, H, and lower hoop, I, are fixed coiled wires J J, spanning the annular space between said hoops. A suitable wirework floor, L, is made within hoops I, which stands above the rotary dasher and its operating mechanism, as seen in Fig. 1. By this construction the plates, platters, and other usually most soiled dishes are placed in the annular space, with their edges between the meshes of the coiled wires J J, which hold them apart from one another and allows the water to be freely dashed between them. Thelighter and .more delicate ware, and that less soiled, is

placed on the door wit-hin the hoops I I, where the water has less force, but is sufficient to cleanse them without danger of breakage.

From the foregoing the operations of this machine are obvious. The dishes which require'the greater amount of washing are placed in the outer circle, where the greatest force of the water is expended, which force may be made commensurate with the degree of resistance to overcome by giving greater rapidity to the movements of the dasher and giving greater centrifugal force to the water thrown from it, while the dishes within the innerhoops will only receive more copious showers from the water thrown over upon them.

Having described our invention, we claim as follows;

The combination, with a cylindrical vessel, A, having a discharge in the bottom, of a rotary dasher, F, attached to a vertical short shaft, C, stepped in a bridge, B, its top end journaled in crossbar D, and having bevelgear E, and operated by a beveLgear, g, on strueted and arranged to operalesubstantnlly crank-shaft G, and :L basket; composed of hoops as described. H H and cross-Wires k k, hoops I I, and cross- CHARLES BURDICK.

Wires i z', and having Wire floor L, the said CHARLES R. BROWN. 5 hoops H H and I I being joined together by the diagonal braces h h and the coils J J, the vessel A having a removable lid, all eon- VVtuesses:

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